Flash 1 not formatting NEED HELP URGENTLY

[jduong4]

Try holding the square button while inserting your pandora battery.
Cheers
Nish

still no menu dude, i tried pressing a bunch of buttons and sometimes the 2 LED lights blink but thats it, no menu no nothin just black screen with light on it

[goodfriend]

This is a good choice .

[jduong4]

This is a good choice .

wut are u talking about

[Eyss]

Had the same problem, found that inserting a normal, non-pandora battery fixed it

[mobintellect]

this was a real lifesaver for me...however one thing to mention, under the "other" section of nandtool, i was only able to choose the selction: "Repartition Lflash" anyways i did this and went back and unbricked and it worked. awesomely helpfull thread. thanks alot!

[glayshire]

I was having a problem with my normal psp battery,it seems like the psp cannot detected the battery, so i did a searched on yahoo and found out if i format the flash 1 then everything will be ok, and everything was ok at first.My psp was still on for 20 minutes and then it suddenly shut down.When i turn it back on everything seems ok but there isn't any menu on the screen and the indicator that indicate the memory card is being read appeared on the right hand side of the screen.is my psp in the condition of semi-bricked?can i use the recovery menu for 3.71m33-4 to solve this problem?.Really need help and guideline on how to solve this problem.By the way i'm on 3.71m33-4.
I am using phat psp
So do i need to build a pandora battery?

[RCB]

thank you very much!

[Chiz-ance]

You guys are amazing!
Thank you so much, this helped out a great deal.
I started freaking out when I saw my friends PSP halt when it was formatting Flash1...
This saved my butt.

gl with all you PSP modders out there who are new to Pandora, like me.
Keep trying, you'll get it.

[DumpsterDiver]

i finally broke down and switched my slim at eb games. i walked in with my bricked slim and asked to see a used slim. i "wanted to see if they were the same size" then i handed him back my brick and walked out with a working psp

That's just awesome. I would love to do that, but i'm 18 now. I'm too afraid. =\

[1fuct1]

my psp is a phat with the cursed TA-082 board. i to have the same problem.. using UPTV5 everything works,but freezes on formatting flash1.will this trick work on a phat???

[1fuct1]

well i used the flash1 tool and worked like a charm..this was on a phat as well.
KUDOS....

[clwnz]

man.. i still thank the guy who posted the fix.. got this problem again lol
thanks dude xD

[OffTheTimeline]

You've corrupted your NAND Partition Table by flashing through USB in 3.71M33. You HAVE to update to 3.71M33-3 before using flash0 through USB or you will eventually screw up like this.

1. Backup your current magic memstick contents to your computer.
2. Make a nand dump of your PSP in its current state & keep the nand dump safely on your PC. **IMPORTANT**
3. Download nandTool 0.2 http://nds.cmamod.com/wordpress/?dl=20
4. Rename the nandtool_02.elf to backup.elf
5. Copy this backup.elf to the kd folder on your memstick, overwriting the existing backup.elf
6. Now go to the Universal Unbricker menu and choose the Make Nand Dump option. nandTool should start.
7. In nandTool, there should be an option caller "Other". Under "Other" choose "Format LFlash".
8. Now you can exit nandTool and use Universal Unbricker to unbrick. It wont freeze at formatting.

thanks! this mini guide helped a ton!

[mobel07]

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[smashytude]

i do not get the option format lflash
Similar Problem to start with...

here is what i get under OTHER
Bad block check
repartition lflash
dump idstore keys
write idstore keys
format partitions